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title: "Founder at SynthAiLabs (formerly OpenEdu)"
company: "SynthAiLabs (formerly OpenEdu)"
period: "Dec 2023 – Feb 2025"
location: "Remote"
url: "https://himanshuat.com/experience/synthailabs-formerly-openedu-founder"
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# Founder — SynthAiLabs (formerly OpenEdu)

*Dec 2023 – Feb 2025 · Remote*

## About the company

SynthAiLabs, which started as OpenEdu, was an attempt to compress how long it takes a student to become employable. Part edtech product, part community, aimed at Indian engineering students who had the ability but not the ramp.

## What I did

- Researched Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) LLM architectures.
- Built learncode (interactive AI lessons) and eduAI (an agent that answers questions about course material).
- Grew techos.synthailabs to 11,000 registered students across India.
- Co-founded the OpenCodeDevelopers (OCD) society, which grew by word of mouth and helped 800+ students cut their CP/DSA ramp from six months to two.

## The longer version

I started it in my second year. The bet was that most of the time students lose is not to difficulty, it is to not knowing what to do next, and that a tight enough structure with people around you closes that gap faster than better material does.

On the product side I built learncode, which taught through interactive AI lessons, and eduAI, an agent that answered questions about the actual course material rather than in general. I also spent real time on Mixture-of-Experts architectures, which is where my interest in specialised models rather than one large one comes from.

The community part worked better than the product part. techos.synthailabs reached 11,000 registered students across India, and the OpenCodeDevelopers society grew almost entirely by word of mouth, helping more than 800 students cut a six month competitive programming ramp down to about two.

Funding was always the constraint and I eventually stepped away. The validation I care about came afterwards: juniors restarted it and kept it running without me. Something that survives its founder leaving was worth more than anything I could have put on a slide.

## Stack

TypeScript, Next.js, Node.js, Express, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, CI/CD, React, TailwindCSS

Company site: https://synthailabs.com

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Source: https://himanshuat.com/experience/synthailabs-formerly-openedu-founder